Easel



1. STRANDERS.

EASEL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 28, 191.6.

PatentedJune 1, 1920.

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JULIE-N STRANDERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ATLANTA LITHO-GRAPHIC AND PRINTING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEWYORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed December 28, 1916. Serial No. 139,352.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIEN S'rnANnnns', a subject of the King of GreatBritain, and resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Easels, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to easels for exhibiting cards or other articlesand has for its objects the provision of such an easel made from asingle piece of sheet material; an easel which is so creased that it maybe collapsed. and lie absolutely fiat thereby taking up a minimum ofroom and permitting the easy assembling and disassembling of the same;to provide a support which is entirely selfcontained and can beassembled in operative position without the use of any outside agency,such as rivets, mucilage and so forth; and to provide a support whichwill be exceedingly strong and offer the maximum supporting strength forthe material used. Other objects will be obvious from the followingdescription taken in connection with the drawings in which,

Figure 1 is a view of the support in collapsed or fiat position andshowing the creases and slits therein;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the support in upright or assembledposition;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the support in operative position.

As clearly shown in Fig. 1, the support is made from a single piece ofsheet material and consists of the front plate or section 10 and the twoside sections or standards 12 and 13. A tongue 11 is formed from thefront section 10 by means of the crease 16, the two side cuts 21 and 22and the transverse cut 23. The latter cut extends between the twocreases 241 and 25 which permit the standards 12 and 13 to be bentbackward from the front section 10. At its opposite edges the tongue 11is provided with two slits 17 and 18 for a purpose presently to bedescribed. The standards 12 and 13 are formed with two creases 26 and 27extending parallel to the creases 24 and 25 and at their upper and lowerends having the cuts 28, 29, 30 and 31 extending between the creases 26,27 on the one hand and 241, 25

The cuts 28 and 29 and the The on the other. slits 17 and 18 lie in astraight line.

and 15 are bent up at substantially right angles to the standards 12 and13 so that the slits 17, 18, 19 and 20 will-cooperate to hold the saidtongues in interlocked position as shown in Fig. 3.

It will thus be apparent that an easel is provided which may be verycheaply manufactured from sheet material with a minimum number ofoperations, that the easel may be assembled from its flat position intooperative position very easily and quickly, and that when so assembled adevice is provided which is exceedingly stable and strong.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed and desired to besecured by Letters Patent is:

1. An easel comprising a front plate inclined to the base plane of theeasel, a side standard hinged to each of the upright edges of saidplate, atongue extending rearwardly from said plate and having a slit 2.An easel comprising a front plate inchned to the base plane of theeasel, a side standard hinged to each of the upright 'edges of saidplate, a tongue extending rearwardly from said plate and having a slitat the two edges in contact with the side standards, a tongue on each ofthe side standards adapted to be arranged in the adjacent slit and eachhaving a slit adapted to receive the first mentioned tongue. 3. An easelcomprising a front plate inclined to the base plane of the easel, a sidestandard hinged to each of the upright edges of said plate, a tongueextending rearwardly from said plate, a tongue on each of the sidestandards arranged substantially parallel to the said plate and having aslit substantially midway of its height adapted to receive the firstmentioned "tongue.

In'testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JULIEN STRANDERS.

